piped input to xtroff, xditview doesn't work?

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From: Ned D. Danieley
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 20:54

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SunOS 4.0.3, 3/280, X11R4, fix 1, gcc 1.35, twm

It appears that xtroff and xditview will not accept input from
a pipe; ie,

ditroff -ms file | xtroff

causes xtroff to complain about the end of the file being reached
before the end of the document. for xditview, the complaint is no
file selected. this didn't happen for xtroff, at least, under R3.
I sent in a bug report last week about xditview, but haven't heard
back, and I just found the problem with xtroff.

has anyone else seen this? any fixes?

Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu)
Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory
Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC  27710
(919) 660-5111 or 660-5100

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From: ndd@macbeth.cs.duke.edu (Ned D. Danieley)
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Subject: piped input to xtroff, xditview doesn't work?
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